The Clippers lost a crushing defeat in the seventh tie, knocked down and rebuilt, or fought for another year?

When the final whistle was frozen at a dazzling score of 101-120, the Clippers' curse of failing in the playoffs for the fourth consecutive year is still continuing. Faced with the Nuggets' iron-blooded defense, this luxury battleship exposed structural flaws: the three crisis of core aging, tactical rigidity, and role players' off-set outbreak completely broke out, sounding the alarm for the first complete reconstruction of the Ballmer era.

Harden's 7 points and 5 rebounds were a disastrous performance. Under Westbrook's biting defense, the former MVP became an offensive black hole. When the ball-holding core loses the threat of breakthrough, 13 assists are just a fig leaf for trapped animals to fight.

What's more fatal is that Leonard continues to deteriorate. Behind the 22 points under the shadow of knee injury is the sharp decline in breakthrough explosive power. The stealth at the last quarter has completely shattered the "robot" myth. The two top-salary stars have a total annual salary of 90 million yuan, but they are unable to contribute to the huge performance in the life-and-death battle, which has become the biggest burden that has crushed the Clippers.

Tyronlu's tactical system is unforgivable, and he is obsessed with the advantage of the five small lineups, allowing Jokic to score 30+15.

When Zubac played for only 24 minutes, substitute center Plumley was brutally defeated by the DNP, and this logic of using troops was comparable to suicide gambling.

What's more ironic is that when high-quality puzzles such as Powell and Mann were used as 3D tool players, the team had to rely on the draft picks Brown and Kofi to prosper, exposing the serious imbalance in lineup construction.

The Clippers standing at the intersection must make a decision: the core combination of 34-year-old Harden + 32-year-old Leonard has reached the ceiling, and the current value of the transaction is still a good opportunity to cash out.

In my opinion, after clearing the salary space, we should rebuild decisively around young players and exchange the 3-5-year dormant period for future competitiveness. As for the superstitious superstar’s team building thinking and Tyron Lu’s tactical system, it should have been swept into the dust of history with this shameful defeat. When the Warriors dynasty used ten years of rise and fall to prove the truth of "no destruction and no establishment", it was time for the Clippers to let go of their obsession with false prosperity.

Balmer, what do you say?